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Celestia
Celestia
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Celestia free download for Mac

Celestia

Version 1.6.1

Real-time space fly-through simulation.

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Celestia overview

Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

What’s new in version 1.6.1

Updated on Jun 11 2011

Version 1.6.1:
  • Contains bugs fixes
  • New and more complete translations
  • Updated data files (including new exoplanet discoveries)

Information

License

Free

Size

38.7 MB

Developer’s website

https://celestia.space/

Downloads

59204

App requirements

  • Intel 32
  • PPC 32
  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
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Pjaym59
Pjaym59
Jan 22 2024
1.6.1
0.0
Jan 22 2024
0.0
Version: 1.6.1
Update version 1.6.5 - Jan 19, 2024
thegreencrew9
thegreencrew9
Jul 22 2023
1.6.1
1.0
Jul 22 2023
1.0
Version: 1.6.1
why cant I just download it from here. its literally impossible to download it from that other website
Alexrom1000
Alexrom1000
May 5 2011
1.6.0
4.0
May 5 2011
4.0
Version: 1.6.0
The idea is interesting. Implementation was nice as well. What the program lacks is a good, solid update. On July 9th, 2009 we saw the last news from Celestia team. I hope the project is not dead...
Masongill
Masongill
Aug 11 2010
1.6.0
0.0
Aug 11 2010
0.0
Version: 1.6.0
Selecting "Move Closer" makes any image window go blank. ?? (MacBook Pro, OS 10.6) Not quite as much fun as Google Earth.
Michael-A-
Michael-A-
Jan 30 2008
1.5
5.0
Jan 30 2008
5.0
Version: 1.5
For any people who have ever found that jumping around to different places in Google Earth was an addictive adventure, this is even better...
Enrico-Nencini
Enrico-Nencini
Jan 29 2008
1.5
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: 1.5
Awesome software. AND free. Tested on PPC and Intel (leopard): works seamlessly.
Guest
Guest
Jan 29 2008
1.5
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: 1.5
Brilliant, I love the complete StarTrek TNG add-on.
Tice
Tice
Jan 29 2008
1.5
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: 1.5
This app is great. I used it since the early days and it still gets me. Wonderful work. Only the navigation could be more intuitive (i.e. the arrows left and right could change the direction instead of turning and up and down shouldn't be opposite). Anyway, thanks for this great piece of freeware! : )
Guest
Guest
Feb 22 2006
1.4.1
5.0
Feb 22 2006
5.0
Version: 1.4.1
First, let me reccomend this to anyone with an interest in Astronomy, or who is taking in Astronomy-related class somewhere (I sure wish I had this years ago when I was taking Astronomy in college). Now, an amazing 3-dimensional adventure through the solar system and much more. To this minute, I've been through mostly the entire Milky Way, and I don't even know how far this program maps. This is amazing. Very easy to learn how to navigate around. Drag around with the mouse, or use your arrow keys, travel at 100 m/sec or 100 times the speed of light, or on the scale of astronomical units per second (1 AU is the distance from earth to sun)... impressive, easy to turn on/off labels of orbits, planets, constellations, and much more (all easy to find in Preferences). You can even see cities, mountains, and other things, all at the click of the mouse. Great choices of rendering paths (for graphics) from Basic to OpenGL 2.0, and many things in between (which will work better with different video cards, old and new). It will even tell you (in most cases) if you cannot use the selected rendering option. There's something for anyone. Beautiful graphics. I suggest that you see for yourself. It's hard to describe the fact that I can see almost every detail of the moon, as deeply as I've ever studied its surface. Very, very impressive on my 19" monitor on my G5 tower. There's even a 'Favorites' menu (akin to Bookmarks). Zoom from planet to start to constellation in seconds. There is so much you can do with this program. Or just leisurely show your friends what a cool program you found. I highly suggest this for anyone _teaching_ astronomy as a professor or teacher. Chris Laurel, and anyone else involved in developing this deserves credit for the most impressive and comprehensive (yet simple in nature) space exploration app I've seen that is so easy to use, even a relative computer novice can tool around. And free. Props. I honestly can't say anything negative. Congrats on an amazing app. I wish I found this a long time ago.
Guest
Guest
Feb 22 2006
1.4.1
0.0
Feb 22 2006
0.0
Version: 1.4.1
Wow. Seriously... wow. Space is big. No, bigger than you're thinking. Really, really, mind-bogglingly big. Wow. Easy to get lost in, too -- in time as well as space. I've lost track of how many hours I've spent tonight cruising the cosmos. This is really an amazing visualization tool. It's not as if I need it in my daily work, but I sure like having it to escape to.
Applecrypt-Mods
Applecrypt-Mods
Feb 20 2006
1.4.1
0.0
Feb 20 2006
0.0
Version: 1.4.1
incredible - i love this s/w!!! thank you :)
Guest
Guest
Aug 2 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Aug 2 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
At least one fan hopes for an update with: -toggle on/off full screen -the tenth planet! -solar system guide (wide view of orbits) -satellite mission guides with links to nasa pics Thank you for a brilliant program, Celestia is the bomb.
Ancientyger
Ancientyger
Jul 11 2005
1.3.2
4.3
Jul 11 2005
4.3
Version: 1.3.2
a pre-release of 1.4x it has some issues (i've not seen them...) but, seems to work well on a mini. http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7457 please, follow the forums and post there show your support for the mac version, but know that it is under development and hasn't been ignored. This, is some great software!
Guest
Guest
Mar 14 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Mar 14 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
Celsetia worked fine on my G3 iBook when running 10.2. But on my G4 iBook running 10.3 it crashes the whole system. And I did do everything the ReadMe file says.
Guest
Guest
Feb 13 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Feb 13 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
Celestia continues to be great. on my "old" G4 466 with a 16MB ATI Rage Pro it performs well enough to prompt me to buy a new video card ;-P I've been following the progress of Celestia for a while now, The Mac OSX version still does not match the Windows version, but i know poeple are working on it. I wish more mac developers would help this opensource project along.
Guest
Guest
Jan 4 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
I have a 15"FP 800Mhz iMac w/ OS 10.3.7 and it works fine. I placed the entire contents of the virtual disk into a new folder on my desktop, labeled the folder "Celestia", and then placed the folder into my Applications folder. Perhaps people are dragging just the application into their hard drive and are not taking the "CelestiaResources" folder, too. The makers of Celestia need to place everything into a single folder so upon decompressing, the user can just drag the whole folder into the hard drive. For a FREE application, it is well worth the price. It is great for beginners in astronomy. My only recommendations would be to add color to the stars, use real images of the galaxies and add more of them, because the overall look of the sky isn't real at all. This is its major fault. As a purely scientific aid, it is fine
Guest
Guest
Jan 4 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
My eMac was frozen too with this version (1.3.2) and the old worked. Trash until the next one !
Guest
Guest
Jan 4 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
This app has always worked well for me, lots of fun. It does require a lot of system resources, not surprising for what it is.
Guest
Guest
Jan 4 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
Use wit caution! Causes a system-wide freeze on my new eMac! After 3 tries, I trashed it!
Guest
Guest
Jan 4 2005
1.3.2
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: 1.3.2
Still a very fun toy on my G4 PowerBook, but I wish it would use less CPU.
thegreencrew9
thegreencrew9
Jul 22 2023
1.6.1
1.0
Jul 22 2023
1.0
Version: 1.6.1
clemons_Z
clemons_Z
May 24 2021
1.6.1
5.0
May 24 2021
5.0
Version: 1.6.1
hanzmu9
hanzmu9
May 18 2021
1.6.1
4.0
May 18 2021
4.0
Version: 1.6.1
sosufo07
sosufo07
Jan 8 2013
5.0
Jan 8 2013
5.0
Version: null
Alexrom1000
Alexrom1000
May 5 2011
4.0
May 5 2011
4.0
Version: null
Michael-A-
Michael-A-
Jan 30 2008
5.0
Jan 30 2008
5.0
Version: null
Enrico-Nencini
Enrico-Nencini
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: null
Tice
Tice
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Jan 29 2008
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Feb 22 2006
5.0
Feb 22 2006
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Aug 2 2005
5.0
Aug 2 2005
5.0
Version: null
Ancientyger
Ancientyger
Jul 11 2005
4.3
Jul 11 2005
4.3
Version: null
schmelding
schmelding
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Jan 4 2005
5.0
Version: null
Heiliger
Heiliger
Jan 15 2004
4.5
Jan 15 2004
4.5
Version: null
Dax1
Dax1
Jan 13 2004
5.0
Jan 13 2004
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Jun 21 2003
5.0
Jun 21 2003
5.0
Version: null
MacManX
MacManX
May 25 2002
4.3
May 25 2002
4.3
Version: null
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